Student Awards

Christina Aridi, Brianna Vance, Natalia Evelyn Valenzuela, Benjamin Wilson and Hannah Oman

• BMES Design team wins 1st prize in the Medtronic Student Design Competition

Samantha O’Connor (Doctoral Student)

• Attended the Single Cell Biology Conference in the UK

Christina Aridi (Undergraduate Student)

• Katie Conrad Memorial Award

Karsyn Bichler (Undergraduate Student)

• Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship Award

Michael Dagher (MS Student)

• Outstanding SBHSE Teaching Assistant

Nicole Haikalis (MS Student, Mentor: Dr. Sydney Schaefer)

• Recipient of the Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience

Margarito Hernandez Fuentes (Undergraduate Student)

• Outstanding SBHSE Undergraduate Research Assistant

Alejandra Patino (PhD Student)

• Outstanding SBHSE Graduate Research Assistant

Jennifer Smetanick (Undergraduate Student)

• Outstanding SBHSE Senior

Ashley Tse (Undergraduate Student)

• Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship Award

Christina Aridi

• Outstanding SBHSE Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sarah Brady (Undergraduate Student)

• Outstanding SBHSE Senior

Victoria Dong:

• Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship Award

Jarrett Eshima (PhD Student, Mentor: Dr. Barbara Smith)

• Recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
• Outstanding SBHSE Graduate Research Assistant

Crispin Foli (MS Student, Mentor: Dr. Bradley Greger)

• Selected for the Masters Opportunity for Research in Engineering (MORE) Spring 2021.

Kassondra Hickey (PhD Student, Mentor: Dr. Sarah Stabenfeldt)

• Recipient of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientist (ARCS) Scholar for 2020-2021

Britney Hill (Undergraduate Student, Mentor: Dr. Sydney Schaefer)

• Accepted into the EuroScholars Research Abroad program for Fall 2021. She will work at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands on a project focused on advanced brain MRI. In addition she received the International Studies Abroad Planning Scholarship from the ASU Study Abroad Office to support her time there.

Kristin Huber (Undergraduate Student, Mentor: Dr. Sarah Stabenfeldt)

• Kristin established a novel Java program that streamlined the analysis of tissues for the Stabenfeldt Lab. The Stabenfeldt Lab develops novel targeted diagnostic and therapeutic biomaterials in the treatment of traumatic brain injury. Existing pipelines of image analysis require time-consuming and error prone ImageJ processing. Kristin dramatically optimized this process by building an accessible user interface that allows the user to complete accurate and reproducible  image analysis, as well as the ability to open and save data with ease.

Lauren Lossner (Undergraduate Student, Mentor: Dr. Bradley Greger)

• Selected to participate in the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) for Spring 2021.

Sabina Minta-Jacobs (MS Student, Mentors: Dr. James Abbas & Dr. Narayanan Krishnamurthi)

• Selected for the Masters Opportunity for Research in Engineering (MORE) Spring 2021.

Christopher Miranda

• Katie Conrad Memorial Award

Niveditha Muthukrishnan (PhD Student, Mentors: Dr. James Abbas & Dr. Narayanan Krishnamurthi):

• “Grad Slam” Winner, Science and Technology Category; Elevator Pitch Competition, Graduate and Professional Student Association, 2020
• IEEE Phoenix Section Student Scholarship Award, 2020
• SBHSE Graduate Excellence Award, 2020

Abigail Turcheck

• Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship Award

Jennapher Lingo VanGilder (PhD Student, Mentor: Dr. Sydney Schaefer)

• Recipient of a Faculty Women’s Association 2021 Distinguished Graduate Student Award
• Recipient of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientist (ARCS) Scholarship and received the Dean’s Dissertation Award

Jaimeson Veldhuizen (PhD Student, Mentor: Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah):

• Recipient of an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) fellowship for AY2021-22

Peiyuan (Boki) Wang (PhD Student, Mentor: Dr. Sydney Schaefer):

• Recipient of the Foundation for Neurofeedback & Neuromodulation Research (FNNR) mini-grant
• Recipient of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Graduate Student Research Grant

Erik Halsband (Undergraduate Student):

• Recipient of Mentoring for Innovative Design Solutions (MIND) scholarship

Peiyuan (Boki) Wang (PhD Student):

• Boki and team are finalists in the 2019 NBA Hackathon
• Teaching Excellence Award for Fall 2019 from the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA)

Samita Gopalakrishnan, Nathan Hui, Esther Sim & Emily Tanner (Undergraduate Students):

• Won 2nd place at the BMES-Medtronic National Student Design Competition at the BMES 2019 Annual Meeting.  The theme for this year was Digital Imaging and the project was a skin cancer and melanoma detection app called “Know Your Skin.”

Emmanuella Adjei-Sowah, Dzifa Kwaku, and Ermyntrude Adjei (undergraduate students):

• MasterCard Foundation Scholars Research Fund Award, 2019. (ASU Faculty mentor: Dr. James Abbas)

Scott Boege (Graduate Student):

• Outstanding SBHSE Teaching Assistant

Sydney Connor (Undergraduate Student):

• Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship Award

Sarah Rosemary Davis (Undergraduate Student):

• Katie Conrad Memorial Award

Joshua Cutts, Danh Truong, Victoria Smith, Jennapher Lingo VanGilder:

• Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Award.

Jarrett Eshima (Undergraduate Student):

• NSF REU at Georgia Tech University, 1st author publication

Madeleine Howell (Undergraduate Student):

• NSF REU at University of Michigan summer
• Goldwater Fellowship Selected from ASU cohort

Todd Jordan (Undergraduate Student):

• Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship Award

Karolena Lein (Undergraduate Student):

• Outstanding SBHSE Undergraduate Research Assistant

Joel Lusk (PhD Student):

• Selected for Oral Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society National Conference

Jennapher Lingo VanGilder:

• NIH NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship with 3 years of support (mentor: Dr. Sydney Schaefer) | Grant title:  “Using diffusion tensor imaging to identify the structural neural correlates of visuospatial and motor skill learning processes”
• Recipient of Advancing Science in America (ARCS) award, project title: “Achievement Reward for College Scientists”, sponsored by Dr. Robert and Nancy Spetzler.

Ethan Marschall (Graduate Student):

• Outstanding SBHSE Graduate Research Assistant

Gabrielle Mills:

• Recipient of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Miss Mills will attend the University of Cambridge for a doctorate in chemical engineering.

Christopher Miranda (PhD Student):

• Selected for Oral Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society National Conference

Levi Riley (Undergraduate Student):

• Outstanding SBHSE Senior

Peiyuan Wang (PhD Student):

• Phoenix Pride Scholarship Award

• Katie Conrad Memorial Award

BMES student chapter:

• Commendable Achievement award across all BMES student chapters.

Lexi Bounds:

• Outstanding SBHSE Undergraduate Research Assistant Award

Joshua Cutts, Danh Truong, Victoria Smith, Jennapher Lingo Vangilder:

• Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Award.

Courtney DuBois:

• Oxford Scholar

Nicolas Hool:

• Hoolest Performance Technologies won the top prize of $100,000 at the ASU Innovation Open. Nicholas Hool, is an SBHSE graduate student and co-founder of Hoolest Performance Technologies. Read more here.

Swathy Kumar:

• Outstanding SBHSE Teaching Assistant Award

Chi Lin:

• Awarded 1st place for his poster presentation at 2018 World Congress on Biosensor held in Miami. This is the largest biosensor congress in the world attracting more than 1100 attendees from across the globe.
• Dr. Jeff LaBelle’s student | 2018 Young Chemist Award. Read more here.

Christopher Miranda (PhD Student)

• NSF Fellowship at University of Minnesota

Ali Navaei:

• Acta Student Award ($2000 cash prize) for published article in journal of Acta Biomaterialia: “Gold nanorod-incorporated gelatin-based conductive hydrogels for engineering cardiac tissue constructs”, advisor: Prof. Mehdi Nikkhah. More info.

Mohammad Mousa:

• 2017 Dr. Larry A. Mullins Endowed Scholarship for Health Education

David Probst:

• Outstanding SBHSE Graduate Research Assistant Award

Harpinder Saini:

• SBHSE student merit award recipient
• Engineering Graduate Fellowship

An Tran:

• Fulbright Scholar
• Outstanding SBHSE Senior Award

Danh Truong:

• International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) Fellowship Renewal
• Graduate College Fellowship
• Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) Research Grant: “The Study of Glycoprotein Non-metastatic B as a Target to Disrupt Tumor-Stroma Interactions During Cancer Invasion” .
• Graduate College Completion Fellowship
• Editor’s choice: tumor microenvironment – first author paper selected to become part of a new collection

StepPlus Group (Brandon Bartels, Arianna Moreno, Haley Sivertson, Maria Jose Quezada) | Second Place Prize in the Student Concept Pitch at the Bioaccel Solutions Challenge 2016.

SBHSE 2017 Celebration of Excellence awards:

• Alison Llave – Outstanding SBHSE Seniors
• Allison Marley – Outstanding SBHSE Seniors
• Courtney DuBois – Outstanding SBHSE Undergraduate Research Assistant
• Danh Truong – Outstanding SBHSE Graduate Research Assistant
• María José Quezada – Katie Conrad Memorial Award
• Swathy Sampath Kumar – Outstanding SBHSE Teaching Assistant

Lexi Bounds | Accepted to Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program. She is one of the 35 accepted from over 650 applicants.

Danh Truong | IFER fellowship. Read more about it here.

Aldin Malkoc | 2017 Young Chemist Award Winner. Read more about it here.

IGEM 2016 Results: personal best for ASU.  The team project, with Dr. Karmella Haynes, earned several awards for the first time in ASU’s history in iGEM, and won the highest number since 2011 when ASU first participated in iGEM.

1. Gold Medal
2. Best New Basic Part
3. Best Part Collection
4. Biosafety Commendation

Finalist for “Best in Track: Foundational Advance” and “Best Integrated Human Practices.”
You can read more about it on the ASU iGEM web page.

Matt Mortensen | Outstanding UG Research Award

Aldin Malkoc | Outstanding UG Research Award

Brittney Haselwood Cardinell | Outstanding Graduate Research Award

Jacob Packer | John D. Kelly Memorial Bioengineering Scholarship

Arianna Moreno | Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship

Lexi Bounds | Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship

Alexandra Barnes | Volker and Lynne Sonntag Scholarship

Casey Weinstein | AEMB Inductees

Garrett Repp | AEMB Inductees

Chi-En Lin | AEMB Inductees

Cory Riecken | AEMB Inductees

Taraka Sai Pavan Grandhi | AEMB Inductees

Neeta Ashok Kumar | AEMB Inductees

Derek Titus | AEMB Inductees

Daylin Morgan | AEMB Inductees

Alexandria Lam | Katie Conrad Memorial Award

Valerie Harris | Metin Akay Graduate BME Leadership Award

Jonathan Plasencia | Metin Akay Graduate BME Leadership Award